There we go! Didn't take long for the repressive, censoring, human rights abusing, annexing CCP that just accused Trump of "bullying" to happily pick up the "bullying" baton, now, did it?
Autocrats of the world unite. It's all just a Punch & Judy show - 4 way carve up - Trump / Putin / Xi / MBS
Yeah, but the thing is, it's just been playing the same game all along, hasn't it? Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, SCS, Taiwan. China always likes to pretend it's playing a different game from the US, but it's not. It's a Punch & Judy show to disguise plans for the 4-way carve up of the planet by autocrats
That China was an repressive and authoritarian empire was always known. The significant development is not that China is like the US, but the US is like China.
To some extent, but I think we've always know that the US wanted to control the world in the same way China does, just using different tools (corporate power vs. authoritarian control)
I see a nation where successive administrations do the biddings of corporations all at the expense of citizens, where infrastructure and civil society foundations break down and disintegrate.
I see another that has seen hundreds of millions emerge out of poverty in the last two decades ...
This heading is incorrect.
They’ve threatened countermeasures against countries that seek to appease Trump *by attacking China’s trade*.
Talk about burying the key point
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Autocrats of the world unite. It's all just a Punch & Judy show - 4 way carve up - Trump / Putin / Xi / MBS
It's fighting back.
I see another that has seen hundreds of millions emerge out of poverty in the last two decades ...
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They’ve threatened countermeasures against countries that seek to appease Trump *by attacking China’s trade*.
Talk about burying the key point